automated regression testing, was Re: Desktop SIG meeting today

[Toshio Kuratomi]

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Douglas McClendon wrote:
> 
> I noticed that F7-livecd took about 3 minutes to fully boot on my system
> under qemu (with kqemu).  And that ubuntu 7.04 took maybe 20 seconds
> longer than that.  But that f8t1 took *15* minutes.  Specifically, udev
> took 20 seconds (reliably +/-3s) on f7-livecd, but f8t1 udev took
> ~65seconds.
> 
> I also recall that f8t1 seemed equally bad on native hardware, though I
> didn't do as detailed a test.
> 
> This seems like a great time to harp on an idea I've been advocating on
> fedora-livecd-list for years now-  Fully automated regression testing
> using qemu.

One thing to remember is that rawhide kernels often have debugging
features turned on that can slow things down compared to the release
kernels.  You'll want to make sure your regression tests take that into
account.

- -Toshio
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